[Ad- gifted product] I feel like everyone has heard of Exploding Kittens, a card game known for having cute yet strange cat-related artwork on each one! Exploding Kittens is created by the same developers as Power Hungry Pets, but was their first ever tabletop game. Somehow, we have never played Exploding Kittens; likely as when the game came out, it would have been too complex for Robin. As we have all grown older, it made sense to finally pick up a copy and play it for ourselves.
Exploding Kittens is a very easy game to actually play. On your turn, you can play as many action cards as you’d like, then select a card from the draw pile. The issue is, the draw pile might have an exploding kitten card. If you draw an exploding kitten, you will be exploded and lose the game, unless you have a defuse card. If you have a defuse card, you are able to defuse the exploding kitten, then place it anywhere you want in the deck. This basically goes on until everyone has been exploded and one person is left.
Where things get interesting are through action cards. You can use actions like Nope to ruin what someone else is playing, cards to shuffle the discards and draw from them, cards to skip your turn, and cards to force others to have two turns. There are other cards in the game that have no actions and are primarily used to create pairs. If you have a pair of any cards (either ones that have no action or action cards) you can play them to steal secretly from another player’s hand. It’s a game of using your actions, keeping hold of some defuse cards, and hoping your draw isn’t going to explode on you!
We played Exploding Kittens at our local Geek Retreat, on one of our family board game nights! Kai got really into the game and started being super strategic and using his cards very wisely, where as Amelia and Robin quite enjoyed the artwork and found the game to be slightly more challenging. We had a fun time playing through this classic and do feel it will have a breath of life, especially with the Netflix animated show out now.
This sounds like so much fun! We love board games with unique gameplay like this.
Sounds like a blast! The action cards really add depth and strategy—especially the stealing and skipping turns!
This game sounds incredibly engaging and strategic! The action cards add a fun twist, allowing players to disrupt each other and strategize their moves. The ability to steal cards and the suspense of drawing cards makes it exciting. I can’t wait to try it out and see how the gameplay unfolds!
We played Exploding kittens before, it is soooooo awesome and super fun. I love it…Really awesome board game, so much fun.
sounds fabtastic
This sounds like fun for all the family. my great grandson loves a card game hut is known to cheat at times!
Love the family photos and your thoughts on the game. As the children grow up, it’s good to consider games like this that are both strategic and fun.
this has different gameplay which should keep the children interested
This game looks great fun for our family games night!
We enjoy a family game or 2 when we go off in our caravan so this would be a great addition
Sounds like fun, my son would love this.
This game looks so fun, perfect for my niece, would love to play it with my whole family!
Fingers crossed
During the winter, we spend Sunday afternoons playing games. It would be great to have a new one!
This is a great game, we played it recently at a Board Game day.
Looks like a great board game I would love to play with the family
This sounds like a fun game to play with the kids! 😊
Never heard of this game before, sounds like a blast and fun
This board game sounds like amazingly good fun
Looks a good game and one all the family can play which is great
This sounds hilarious, perfect for games with our children and grandchildren
What a great way for all to have fun – would be a popular game here
I love it finding new different things this looks fun.
This would be great fun to play as a family
looks like good fun
Sounds like a great game for our next family games night
This sounds a great game I’d love to win this
this sounds great fun—and id love to win
This looks really fun!
We played this at a friends house, was brilliant!
Great prize!
Sounds like a really fun game, be great to win
Wow looks like such fun!
Sounds great, the boys will love the gruesome ethos
Sounds like a cool and fun board game
Great game
played this before with friends and its great fun
Hilarious! Can’t wait to introduce the family to this.
This looks great fun, I am sure my family would love it
this would be great to play with the grandchildren
I’d love to play this with my niece
Blowing up cats?????
This would be great for when the grand daughters come to stay
Sounds like a lot of fun!
My niece loves playing card games. This would be nice to try and win for her.
This would be something that my grand children would enjoy playing.
We love trying new games, so this would be amazing to win.
My 7 & 11 year old have been asking for this game but I wasn’t sure if my 7 year old would understand it! Thank you for the review I think she would love it